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September 1942

 
  • Patrick Evans
  • Sherman Conrad
  • Le Garde Doughty
  • José Garcia Villa
  • John Healy
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The Windless Oaks

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I Asked Her

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The Thirtieth Year of My Age

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Table of Contents

Six Poems
  • E. L. Mayo
    • The Windless Oaks
    • 1939
    • The Forgotten Soldier
    • In the Web
    • Prelude and Fugue
    • Elegy ("He will mount Jacob's ladder...")
Four Poems
  • Maude Phelps Hutchins
    • I Asked Her
    • Absent-Minded Poet in Washington
    • Suitor
    • Gold
  • John Vincent Healy
    • The Thirtieth Year of My Age
  • José Garcia Villa
    • ("Bring the pigeons watermelons...")
    • ("In Picasso you see Blue...")
    • ("Because thy smile is primavera...")
Three Poems
  • John Russell McCarthy
    • Such a Morning
    • Each to His Choice
    • No Tower Needed
Three Poems
  • Sherman Conrad
    • Sonnet ("Hands, the brothers...")
    • The Room
    • Song ("My head held up...")
  • Louis Zukofsky
    • 1892-1941
  • Lionel Wiggam
    • Perseus Slew the Monster
  • Le Garde S. Doughty
    • Nocturne on Gunny
Two Poems
  • Geoffrey Johnson
    • Partition
    • Marginal
  • Henry W. Rago
    • Four Poems: A Memorial
  • D. S. Savage
    • Harold Monro: A Study in Integration
Reviews
  • Leo Shapiro
    • Matthiessen on Form
  • William Carlos Williams
    • An Extraordinary Sensitivity
  • Harvey Breit
    • Paradox: The Ordinary Poet
  • Marian Castleman
    • Civilian Singers
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Harvey Breit
  • Marian Castleman
  • Sherman Conrad
  • Le Garde S. Doughty
  • José Garcia Villa
  • John Vincent Healy
  • Maude Phelps Hutchins
  • Geoffrey Johnson
  • E. L. Mayo
  • John Russell McCarthy
  • Henry W. Rago
  • D. S. Savage
  • Leo Shapiro
  • Lionel Wiggam
  • William Carlos Williams
  • Louis Zukofsky
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